People have watched the Biden administration employ a wide array of aggressive regulatory policies that increasingly restrict American companies and constrain economic growth. And although the competition is stiff, it would be hard to find a more hostile regulatory barrage than what has been coming out of my old institution, the Federal Communications Commission. Under […]

Last weekend, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles against Israel. This direct military strike from Iran against Israel is unprecedented. Israel will respond, but how and when are unknowns.  To date, market action is remarkably sanguine, given the heightened military and economic risks flowing from the attack. U.S. equities have traded modestly lower, not […]

Predictably, the inclusion of China in the Bretton Woods institutions has only frustrated these institutions' purpose.  It is time to recognize this reality and ostracize China rather than keep trying in vain to co-opt it. 

Pollution from the plastics industry is a major force behind the heating of the planet, according to a new report from the federal government. The industry releases about four times as many planet-warming chemicals as the airline industry, according to the paper from scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Its emissions are equivalent to...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said on Wednesday that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is “recycling” Russian propaganda in falsely saying Ukraine is a Nazi state. In an interview on MSNBC’s “The Reid Out,” Raskin noted concerns – even from high-ranking GOP lawmakers like House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) and House Foreign Affairs Committee...